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#foxyboyđŠ Gene Kelly is my rescue dog, & I'm his rescue human. Latitudinarian: amused, bemused, sometimes dismayed. đŻ Tennis fan, ÂĄVamos Rafa! đŸđȘđŒ
So here is your Saturday question:
Does American get it yet? Do we â by which I mean citizens, institutions, and former guardrails â understand the full scope of what is happening? Do the courts, businesses, law firms, universities, media companies get it yet?
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Four snapshots of our political/social/economic/legal/constitutional moment:
MAGA: Children shouldnât learn about slavery.
Also MAGA: Weâre reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.
New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again
"The straightforward explanation for Trumpâs Confederacy fetish is that heâs a virulent racist who wouldâve enslaved people himself. If you think thatâs hyperbolic, just listen to the man."
The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.
If more Democrats got out to vote then Texas would turn blue. Republicans want you to think it's a solidly red state. That way many Democrats won't bother to vote, since they think their vote won't matter.
When Trump meets Putin stories like this should be the main topic of discussion.If Putin wonât listen then Sanctions should be the next discussion.PS I know I am dreaming but any Morally type person it would be the only way to treat Putin.
Daria Kulik a young Ukrainian was just 18 when the russians illegally occupying Melitopol seized her, and 20 when sentenced on 7 August 2025 to 18 yearsâ imprisonment.
In russiaâs customary violation of international law, Kulik was illegally taken to russia and put on âtrialâ
Daria Kulik was just 17 when the Russians invaded her native Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia oblast. They took her prisoner a year later
"That's where we're at: Pete Hegseth quote-tweeting a video, approvingly, about a pastor whose whose church he attends, talking about Christian nationalism...talking about how women shouldn't have the right to vote." @timmiller.bsky.social breaks it down:
Pete Hegseth doesnât want to talk about his hugely ambitious missile defense project.
Maybe thatâs because all anyone knows about Golden Dome is that it will be an expensive, all-azimuth defense against everything that flies - and unlikely to work
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
National missile defense is still impossibleâand expensive.
The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.
The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.
Friday night Tequila Tweet: Itâs fucking disgraceful & despicable that Trump is meeting Putin on American soil. ON AMERICAN SOIL. Putin is a fucking war criminal who invaded a sovereign nation & killed/destroyed the lives of millions of Ukrainians. No fucking way should Putin be on American soil.
We are living in the dumbest timeline.
GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants
Rep. Eric Burlison: âI do believe [giants] were realâ meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...
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Rep. Eric Burlison: âI do believe [giants] were realâ
Guys, if someone tells you they are a Russian military officer and ask you to send them sensitive military plans, it is an FBI agent. www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/p...
A 22-year-old US Army soldier in Texas was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempting to send sensitive information about US battle tanks to Russia, the Justice Department said in a news release.
